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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3118, 14 February 1879, Page 3

THB^eWft&filietfHii 'Victoria 1 liave'cir. calated, Bays the Herald,, .throughout Australia and tftiw'Zealand photographs of Edward Kelly, the most famous personage in these colonies at the present momanVand undoubtedly the man who is becoming a hero and receiving a kind of hero worship,* esptfoialiy from boys and from the whole larrikin element of society. It used to be very~~Uommon for boys in the old country, after a perusal, of,,Mr H»rii£§iP-MnWorla's exeUinfr t'dteV tp, imagine themselves iTack.Sheppard, or it' least to think how^gloribus it would be to emulate his Dick Turpin con. tinues a popular ler'6" &>' tfiiif lday,* chiefly. by the mediums,.of trafelling -circuses " the Kelly gang," 'and/ order each other to " bail up." The serious as* pact of -4he--affair is* that the longcontinued .defiance of the _police,.: the eicapii'ipii 1 Bpferidid 'horße.si'tne sjtjckin^. ug3df (^Sole*to#ns^ipsV pu|tin^ icrQwds of, people unßfeV'lbclc and key like sheep, the strutting about in policy uniform, is.likely to bring the administration of justice into contempt,!-B.nd to cause lawlessness in various- WBys?i.'flL'd Ti'eturn to the portraits. One?is 'of 'B^BferH l(Eelly whek receivedi into gaol on the 2nd of August, 1871, and the'cther of" MnHir 1874, * whW he"was" released.,-.^bropgh the boyish look he has in* iß^lymotTdeVdid' of swbetnessrcan be traced the criminal cast of countenance, and seeing he comes of a.criminal family, tins was only4o.be expected/* But what a change there is in hislodk in 1874 ! In; the three years he has developed into a man, .but has not assumed true manhood/ Constant •association and companionship! with hardened and-debased natures has developed all the. bad /qualities in him, and the possibilities,, of better-things which the first portrait.shews have become obliterated. ■% r ..>-.:justj ,■>:; ■:■:■■■ ■' ;r-